Turing Test Passed
“Floyd,” I wrote, “do you really exist?”
A few minutes passed. Then came the reply: “Yes, I am a person like you.”
Was it just me, or did that sound eerily like something Hal might have said in “2001”?
“So this is really a live session?” I asked. “I’m not talking to a machine?”
“Yes, you are talking to a live person,” Floyd wrote back after another lengthy interval.
David Lazarus goes
up against SBC customer support and can’t tell whether it’s a
human or a robot.A few minutes passed. Then came the reply: “Yes, I am a person like you.”
Was it just me, or did that sound eerily like something Hal might have said in “2001”?
“So this is really a live session?” I asked. “I’m not talking to a machine?”
“Yes, you are talking to a live person,” Floyd wrote back after another lengthy interval.
In 1996 I wrote a P2P AI named Floyd.
He lived in ccr, a
research virtual world built by David Ackley. It deeply
shaped my thinking about distributed systems. Floyd was the first
P2P system I ever built.